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[PATCH net-next 14/16] sfc: Remove bogus comment about MTU change and RX buffer overrun

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-24 19:52:59
Subsystem: networking drivers, sfc network driver, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Edward Cree, Linus Torvalds

RX DMA is limited by the length specified in each descriptor and not
by the MAC.  Over-length frames may get into the RX FIFO regardless of
the MAC settings, due to a hardware bug, but they will be truncated by
the packet DMA engine and reported as such in the completion event.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
index b29db12..4105a666 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
@@ -1953,8 +1953,6 @@ static int efx_change_mtu(struct net_device *net_dev, int new_mtu)
 	netif_dbg(efx, drv, efx->net_dev, "changing MTU to %d\n", new_mtu);
 
 	mutex_lock(&efx->mac_lock);
-	/* Reconfigure the MAC before enabling the dma queues so that
-	 * the RX buffers don't overflow */
 	net_dev->mtu = new_mtu;
 	efx->type->reconfigure_mac(efx);
 	mutex_unlock(&efx->mac_lock);
-- 
1.7.7.6



-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
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